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THE JOURNAL. ISSUED EVKRY WEDNESDAY, M. Iv. TURNER. & CO., Proprietors and Publishers. KATES OF A1TEMTIS1IC-. ISTBusinesa. and professional cards of five lines or less, per annum, five dollars. "a? For time advertisements, apply at this office. "0"Legal advertisements at statute rates. laTTor transient advertising, see rates on third page. 13A11 advertisements payable monthly. FACTS AND FIGURES. iu (Mlumlnts ionpul IS OFFICE, Eleventh St., up stairs in Journal Building. terms: Peryear "r zZ Sixnionths km Three months Single copies VOL. XIV.-NO. 42. COLUMBUS, NEB., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1884. WHOLE NO. 718. ' r BUSINESS CARDS. D.T. MARTYX, 31. D. T. 3. SCHUG. M. D. Dk. HARTYN & SCHXIO, U: S. Examining Surgeons, Local 5urjreon. Union Pacific, .. X. &, 15. H.and II. .V M.tt. R'. C'on,iltition) in German and English. Teh-phones at oilice and residence?. COLUMBUS. - NEBRASKA.. 42-y X F. WILSOX.M.W., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Dlseaps of women and clilMren :i spe cialty. County physici in. Office former 1 occupied by lr. Wood. W pHAS. SI.OA.rVK, (Ykk Lee) CHINESE LA UNDRY. E3TUnder "Star Clothing Store," Ne braska Avenue, Cblumbu. 2S-3m DENTAL PAKLOR. On Corner of Twelfth and North Streets. ovtr'Ernst's hardwure store. JSaroilicc hour.-, 3 to 12 a. in.; 1 to .i p. m. OI.U AS'.IUAUGH, Dentist. 0 nORi:iIIIM SIJUJVA-1, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA W, Up-xtair- in Cluck IJuildin-, 11th street, Above the New bank. TT J. 1IIIW540". XOTA It Y P UBLIC. lilli Strert.i doors wrst or lUmmond Horn, Columbus. Neb. 491-y rpilVKN ro. A: POWKKS SURGEON DENTISTS, 2T Office in Mitchell Block, Colum bus, Nebrahka. ""-" j . ki:kdi:, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Oilice ou Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska. 2-tf p . A. IIULLIIOKST, A.M., M. D., HOMEOPA TlllC J'lIYSJCJAN, S2TTwo Blocks south of Court House. Telephone communication. 0-ly V. A. MACKEN, DKAI.KU IN Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Porters, Ales, e'e , etc. Olive Street, next to First National Bank. UV M cAMJKTEK llltOM., A TTOltNE YS AT LA W, Oilice upstairs in McAllister's build ing. 11th .St. V. A. McAllister, Notary rublic. J. M. MACKAKLASll, B. " COWDEKY, Attrrstj iai Hrtirj- Prtr c. C:Ui:r. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE OK MACFAR1jAND& COWDBRx, Columbus, : : : Nebraska. p EO. 3f. DEKKV. PAINTER. JSJTCarriagc, house and sign painting, glazing, paper hanging, kalsomiuing, etc. done to order. Shop on 13th St., opposite Engine House. Columbus, Neb. 10-y -p II. ICIJSCllE, llth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harncs:., Saddles, Collars, "Whips, Blankets, Curry Combs, Bruihes, trunks, valise, buggy top, cushions, carriage trimmings?, Ac., at the lowest possible priecs. Repairs pr mptly attended to. JS. MURDOCK & SON, Carpenters and Contractors. Ilavenad an extended experience, and will guarantee satisfaction in work. All kind of repairing done on short notice. Our motto is, Good work and fair prices. Call and give us an oppor tuuitvtoestlmateforyou. fSTShop on 13th St., one door west of Friedhof & Co's. store, Columbus. Nebr. 483-y o. c. SHAJsrisroisr, MANUFACTUKKR OK Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware ! Job-Work, Hoofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. S5rShon on Eleventh Street, opposite Heintz's brus: Store. 4G-y G W. CL1KK, LAND AND INSURANCE AGENT, HUMPHREY, NEBR. His lands comprise some fine tracts in the Shell Creek Valley, and the north ern portion of Platte county. Taxes paid for non-residents. Satisfaction guaranteed. 20 y c oi.u.vtuus PACKCVG CO., COLUMBUS, - NEB., Packers and Dealers iu all "kinds of Hog product, cah puid for Live or Dead Hogs or grease. Directors. K. H Henry, Preat.; John "Wiggius, Sec. and Treas-.; L. Gcrrard, S. Cory. TOTICE XO TEACHERS. J. E. Moncrief, Co. Supt-, TVill be in his office fit the Court Home ou the third Saturday of each month for the purpose of examining applicants for teacher's certificates, ana for the transaction of any other business pertaining to schools. G67-y TAMES SALMON CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and estimates supplied for either frame or brick buildings. Good work guaranteed. Shop on 13th Street, near St. Paul Lumber Yard, Columbus, Ne braska. 52 Cmo. J. WAGNER, Livery and Feed Stable. Is prepared to furnish the public w.'th good teams, buggies and carriages for all occasions, especially for funerals. , Also coatacts a sale stable." "- '. FIRST National Bank! COX.X71SBXJ8. NEB. Authorized Capital, Cash Capital, S250.000 50,000 OFFICERS AND DIKKCTOKS. . ANDEB?ON, Pres't. SAM'L C. SMITH. Vice Pres't. O. T. ROEN. Cashier. .1. W. EARLY, ROBERT UIILIG. HERMAN OEHLRICn, "W. A. MCALLISTER, G. ANDERSON, J'. ANDLRSON. Foreign and Inland Exchange, Passage Tickets, Real EtHe. Loan ana Insurance. 20-vol-13.lv COAL LIME! J.E.NORTH&.CO., DEALERS IN Goal, Lime, Hair, Cement. Rock Spring Coal, S7.00 per lou Carbon (Wyoming) Coal C.flO " Eldon (Iowa) Coal L'l) " 0 Blacksmith Coal of best quality al ways on hand at low est prices North Side Eleventh St., COLUMBUS, NEB. 14.3m UNION PACIFIC LAND OFFICE. Improved and Unimproved Farms, Hay and Grazing Lands and Cify Property for Sale Cheap AT THE Union Pacific Land Office, On Long Time and low rate of Interest. SgTFinal proof made on Timber Claims, Homesteads and Pre-emption. t3r All wishing to buy lands of any de scription will please call and examine iny list of lands before looking else where H3TA11 having lands to sell will ple.isc call and give me a description, torm , prices, etc. ISTI a'so am prepared to insure prop erty, as I have the agency of several first-class Fire insurance companies. r W. OTT, Solicitor, speaki German. SA.1HIEL C. SMITH, 30-tf Columbus, Nebraska. BECKER & WELCH, PROPRIETORS OF SHELL CREEK MILLS. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLE SALE DEALERS IN FLOUR AND MEAL. OFFICE, COL UMB US, NElt. SPEICE & NORTH, Gen oral Agents for the Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. B. Lands for sale at from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre for cash, or on five or ten years time, in annual payments to suit pur chasers. We have also a large and choice lot of other lands, improved and unimproved, for sale at Jow price and on reasonable terms. Also business and residence lots in the city. We keep a complete abstractor title to all real es tate in Platte County. 621 COLUMBUS, NEB. LOUIS SCHREIBEE, All kimds of Repairing done on Short Notice. Baggies, Wag ons, etc:, made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also tell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Kowers, Seapexi, Combin ed Machines, .Harvesters, and Self-binders the bt.made.C kSsTShop opposite the "'Tattersall," on S3- --iS&f StCOLUMBUSA 2-Cm Mai Wan M MILLIONAIRE AND BAREFOOT BOY. ls evenln?, and the round red sun slnfcfl slowly in the west, The flowers fold their petals up, the birds fly to the nest. The crickets chirrup in the ffrass, the bats flit to and fro. And tlnkle-tankle up the lane the lowing- cat tle ro: And the rich man from his carriage looks on them as they come On them and on the Barefoot Boy that drives the cattle home. "I wish," the boy says to himself "I wish that-I wero he. And yet, upon maturer thought, I do not no slrreel Not for all thn gold his coffera hold would I be that duffer there. With a liver-pad and a gouty toe, and scarce a single hair; To have a wife with a' Roman nose, and fear lest a panic come Far better be the Barefoot Boy that drives the cattle home." And the rich man murmurs to himself: "Would T give all my pelf To change my lot with yonder boy? Not If I know myself. Over the grass that's full of ants and chill with dew to go. With a stone bruise 'upon either heel and a splinter in my toe! Oh, I'd rather sell my yacht a year across the ocean's foam Than be one daytho Barefoot Boy that drives the cattle home." Harper's Magazine. JEXY OF CORNWALL. " My half day's work is done. And this is all my part, I give a patient God My patient heart. " And grasp His banner still, Though all the blue be dim; For strioos no less than stars Lead arter Him." Down among the rocks nnd sunken reefs of the coast ot Cornwall stands a light-house. Anil tho revolving light, as it turns slowly, shows first the terri ble waters that lightly cover the dan gerous rocks anil mam' half-forgotten graves, and then it shows a grand gray castle, that stands securely on the crags, and lifts a weather-beaten front to sun and storm. There is a story that connects those two the light-house and the castle. A story that is very sad, as the stories of many lives would be if they were writ ten. " Twenty-live years ago the heir to Melford Manor was a little, sturdy, straight-limbed boy of five; a child who was always restless, always in mischief. One moment he would be chasing the chickens in the farm-yard, and the next trying experiments on his little brothers under nurse's dignified eyes. When the babies cried, Master Philip was always ordered off in disgrace, to take a prim walk with Jenny. That was always tho end of it Jenny and peace, Jenny and happiness. But as it is Jenny's story I am going to tell you, let me describe her to you as she stood, one sunny afternoon in March, hand in hand with Philip Wynne down among the Melford rocks. Tb be gin with, she was a nursery-maid, a lit tle girl whom Lady Wynne had chosen out of the village school for her good behavior, and also perhaps for that strange, sad, far away look in her eyes. She was voting " just on fifteen," as she said herself but she had a way with children that a whole lifetime could not have taught her. She had motherly instincts that were deep-rooted in her heart; and that gave a charm to her in the eyes of children that older people might have overlooked. All children loved her. Up in that great airy nur sery there was a paradise to her. A paradise of little folks, who clustered around her. " The children want me," she would say; and her whole sad face would change and lighten as she rose to meet them- So on that March afternoon a bright, warm day after a week of cold, bluster ing winds she took little Philip by the hand and went down among the rocks. "It is so hot!" said Philip, balancing himself on the slippery seaweed. "I can't jump any more. May we get out into the boat, Jenny?" "Surely," said Jenny. "You're well wrapped up, and it's warm." The boat was some fishermen's boat, tied loosely to a stake, and was bobbing safely about on the rising tide. They went down together to the water's edge, and Philip's shrill laugh rang out joy fully as he tumbled into the boat and seized an oar. Jenny came last, paus iug for a moment to read the painted name outside, "The Swallow John Smith." "Now lie still, Master Philip," she said, "and shut your eyes and listen." The sun was very hot, and the little boat rose and fell monotonously on the sweeping waves. Philip shut his eyes, so that the flickering light upon the water might not dazzle them. Jenny sang softly to herself long after he had fallen asleep, with his chubby face hid den on her knee and his hair limp with the sea air. Then Jenny began to find the sunlight made her eyes ache, too, and the water made her giddy, and she too shut her e3-es and laid her head up on the gunwale. When she awoke there was a high wind, and itwasgrow ing cold and she was shivering. It was quite light still, but a heavy sea-fog had crept upon them unawares, and every thing was gray and mirty about them. A, little frightened at the" sudden still ness, she crept across the sleeping child and found the rope. The boat half turned, and then rocked aimlessly from side to side. She drew the rop'e inch by inch, into the seat beside her, and looked at it wth a kind of stupid wonder, too frightened to real"ze that they two were out alone on the wide waters,- and the fog was dense about them. Little Philip lay fast asleep in.the bot tom of the boat, and though she shouted till she was hoarse, he never stirred. Then, when the silence had grown ter rible, she crouched down beside him and laid her cheek to his. Her heart was beating wildly, but the breathing fell with soft regularity through his baby lips, and it seemed, to quiet Tier to feel this mute companionship. It had grown almost dark when he woke at last, querulous and cold. "We are out in the boat," she told him, cheerily; "and the fog makes it dark. But I have some biscuits in my pocket, and we will make believe we're eating supper. We can have our real tea wnen we get home." So she laid the biscuits on the seat and chattered on while he ate them greedily, until she had made him laugh. Then she drew him up on her knee and sang him songs and "hymns, until he fell again into a heavy sleepr It"was' now quite dark. "It is night," she said aloud. "And the children will be wanting me.?' Little Philip slept as calmly as in his own little bed at home, but Jenny was cold and restless. She sat up in the darkness, after a while, and clasped her hands about her knees to think.- She. could not see that 'gray mist any longer, but she felt its'chill. breath all about her. It 'seemed like some thin veil "that hun between her. and the familiar places a veil benind which the sum had aatasusual, and 'would -rise again to morrow. She was very hungry, butshs left the biscuits for little EhUip. She was very tired, but too cold to sleep. She could not even think at last, but .lay down in the bottom of the boat, hall de lirious, saying over to herself, softly, aloud: "The children are calling me, but it is too early yet too early and so very cold!" She never knew when the day broke, for the fog still enveloped them; but the mysterious veil grew lighter, and little Philip woke. Jenny dragged herself into a sitting posture, and gave him the two biscuits, turning her eyes away, so that he might not see their hungry long ing. He was as warm and happy as possible after his long night's rest, but Jenny was too cramped and wearied to move much. Her very lips refused to open when she first tried, and when words came they fell feebly from her. But bv and by, when the child grew fretful, she had strength left to gather him up into her weary arms, and whis per softly to him until he grew content again. "Sing, Jenny!" he cried, imperiously. She turned her eyes vacantly upon him and tried to speak, but she was shivering in the bitter wind, and numb, and no words came. Then she tried to smile, but it seemed as if she had for gotten how. Slowty, one by one, the tears rolled down her cheeks, because, for the first time, this child had wanted her, and she was too weak to answer. Philip thought she was asleep so fast asleep that he could not awaken her. And then, in a moment, the mist rolled away, and the sunlight flickered upon the waters just as it liad done the day before. And they were quite close to land so close that John Smith, who was rowing along the shore.searching for the Swallow, came out to them with a few quick strokes ot his oars. Men had been searching for the missing ones all night, and John Smith's lusty shouts brought them together very swiftly, but they ceased shouting when they stood with little Philip, looking at that still form that the Swallow had brought home. Sir Philip, pale and anxious, came down to the shore, and it was ha who took Jenny out and laid her on the sand, covering her with his coat, and forcing brandv between her lips. "The lassie's deid," the neighbors said solemnly to one another. But Sir Philip knew better. "She is not dead," he said. "I will earn her to the house myself but she is overcome by the cold." He knew the whole story instinctively when he looked from his little son's flushed face to the still fair whiteness of Jenny's sharpened features. For the moment he was almost tempted to think, with these rough fishermen, that the unspoken question of Jenny's sad eyes had been answered at last. But she awoke at last delirious. For seven days she hovered between life and death; but even in delirium her love for little children was strangely visible. Hour after hour Lady Wynne sat patiently beside the bed on which the long straight form left so slight an impression. Sometimes she held the restless brown hands; sometimes she sang nursery rhymes softly. But Jenny never knew her. She would push her hands away, and murmur softly to herself about the waters, and the boat, and the rocks, and the terri ble biting wind. But at last the delirium wore itself out, and the great sad eyes looked quietly out from beneath the short tangled locks. Jenny was hardly sensible even now, but she was violent no longer. " The Swallow will get home soon," she said. "I am cold and tired tired." Presently the baby cried in the inner room, and the sound roused her. So they hushed him to bleep and Lady Wynne brought him in herself and laid his little round head close lo Jenny's shoulder. She wrapped her arms tenderly about him and laid her cheek to his, and then there was silence in the room for a long time. " She is sleeping," Lady Wynne said to the Doctor. But the Doctor shook his head. " It is mere exhaustion, not sleep," he said. "It is possible we may never rouse her again." So Lady Wynne sat down beside the bed once more and took the baby on her own knee. And she watched, with tears in her eyes, the little life that had been sacrificea to Philip slowly flicker ing out. By-and-by the children came in from thefr walk and pattered by the door on tiptoe on their way to the day nursery. Jenny opened her eyes feebly and her face flushed. "Let me go!" she cried, stretching out both her arms. "The children want me!" She threw the coverings aside and tried to rise, but Lady Wynne held her gently back. She struggled feebly for a minute and then lay still so still that her quick, uneven breathing seemed to fill the room. Then onee again her eyes opened sad no longer, but unutterably happy. "Don't let the children forget me," she said. The desire was fulfilled at last. The other life had opened out before her. She had gone where the children "wanted her." They built a light-house out among the rocks and wrote Jenny's name up on the corner-stone not" because they feared they would forget her, but be cause her undying memory was as a light to Philip Wynne, far above the storms and tempests of this work-a-day world. GeraldineBult, in Youth's C'-panion. Varieties of Starch. The starch .of every plant differs from its neighbors both in size and shape, and this has a considerable in fluence on the character of the vegeta ble organ in. which it is stored up; the hardness of rice, for instance, being due to the fact that rice-granules are extremely minute, with angular cor ners which fit closely and firmlv to gether; whereas potato starch is large and round, with considerable, inter spacestfilled with water, and so forms a comparatively soft mass. But, not withstanding their outward points of difference, in chemical composition the starches are all identical, consisting of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen exactly the same materials as sugar is com posed of, and better known as the component e'ements of coal and water. Popular Science Monthly. The Boston S'ar says: "The bigger a newspaper is, the more bustle there is about it.1' What it means is, the big ger a bustle is the more newspaper there is about iL Rochester Posi-Ex press. ' A test case "brought in New York ended in a decision that the baking of bread upon the. Sabbath is unlawful. N. X; -Tribune - On a Mast tf War. During peace activity on board a naval vessel begins at 'dawn of day The boatswain blows his whistle at day light, and cries: "All hands up all ham mocks." Within five minutes the sail ors may be seen piling up on deck, each with his hammock neatly rolled and lashed, handing it to the stower in the "netting," the long, box-like recepta cle along the rail, where it remains un til sundown, when it is taken down on the berth-deck again and made ready for occupation. Immediately after the hammocks are stowed the sailors get a pintjof coffee and then turn to to "holy stone" and wash down decks or, if it is Monday, the sailors are first piped to "wash clothes," and lines may be seen running fore and aft, filled with cleanly washed white and blue clothes, or scrub bed white hammocks. At "seven bells" (7:30 o'clock) the sailors are piped to breakfast, and those who are to go on watch at "eight bells" (eight o'clock) must be read- at that hour. At eight bells the ensign is hoisted at the peak, and'-The Star-Spanglod Banner" is played by the band, if on a flag-ship, or drum and fife on others than flag-ships. At the same time the boatswain's whis tle is heard, followed by the bellowing: "All the watch; hold the reel; pump ship, and relieve the wheel." After breakfast the watch is employed in cleaning the brass-work and the guns, coiling ropes, and generally making the ship clean. The officers not on watch do not gen erally rise until eight o'clock, and then, after making their toilet, sit down to a cup of coffee and toast or fruit. At "two bells" (nine o'clock) the "assem bly" is beat, and for the next two hours the crew are drilled at great guns or in the small arm, or sword manual. At "six bells" (eleven o'clock), the officers have breakfast, a substantial meal. From this time until "four bells" in the evening (six o'clock), the oflicers not on watch may occupy their leisure as they see fit. They may generally be found poring over their books or work ing out some problem, when at sea, to avoid being rusty for their next exam ination. H in port they may stroll on on shore. At "two bells" (sLx o'clock), is the oflicers' dinner hour, and an hour afterward they drill the sailors in sea manship, making, reefing, furling, bending, or unbending sails, in boat ex ercise, or target practice. Bank and rank etiquette are strictly enforced on board ship. None but the line and staff officers are permitted to walk on the quarter-deck the officer of the deck having the starboard side and the others the port side, when in har bor, and when at sea the officer of the deck taking the windward, and the others the leeward side. The Captain exjoys the exclusive use of the starboard side of the poop deck, and the other commissioned officers the port side. Forward of the mainmast all the officers have the exclusive right of way on the starboard or the windward side of the deck, while the sailors must keep on the opposite side. In leaving or coming on board ship the same regulation is ob servedthe line and staff use the star board companionway, while the war rant oflicers and crew use the port lad der. Commissioned officers are received on board with the boatswain's pipe as a salute. The Captain messes alone in the cabin, having his own steward, cook and waiter, and unless he invites some of the officers to dine with him at times (as often happens) he lives in this mo notonous way. The line and staff offi cers, above the grade of ensign, consti tute the "wardroom mess," and live in the main saloon of the vessel. The midshipmen and ensigns and other oflicers of assimilated rank form the "steerage mess," and the warrant officers mess by themselves. The mess expenses of the wardroom will range from thirty to forty-five dollars a month, according to the station; those of the other messes about twenty-five to thirty dollars a month. The crew live between decks. They are divided into messes of about twelve men each, and. by contributing a small sum out of their monthly pay, are ena bled to purchase a few delicacies to add to their Government rations of salt beef or pork, with fresh beef twice a week; potatoes, Hour, pilot-bread, salt, pepper, molasses, vinegar, butter, coffee and tea. On Sunday morning the crew are called to "quarters" for general inspec tion of person and cloth'ng, and those who wish ma' attend the church ser vices afterward. Saturdays, after the general work is done, are semi-holidays, when the men lounge about, mend their clothing, read, and otherwise pass away the time. The pay of the crew ranges from nine dollars and fifty cents for ap prentice boys to twenty-six dollars per month for" an "able-bodied seaman. The petty officers receive higher rates of pay. The sailors are permitted to draw monthly money, but a larger pro portion of their pay is retained until tho expiration of the term of enlistment. V. J". Evening Post. m . Horace Ureelej's Farm. Alter the dealh of Horace Greeley It was intended that his farm at Chappa (jua should be sold and the proceeds divide 1 between his daughter, Gabrielle and Ida, the latter of whom was the wife of Colonel Nicholas Smith. For some reason this was not done, and when Mrs. Smith died, more than a year ago, the farm was still unsold. ColonelSmith, who had lived on the farm after Mr. Greeley's death, re moved to Shelbyville, Kentucky, with his three children, and the farm was rented in part. Miss Gabnelle M. Greeley recently brought a friendly suit for the sale of the farm, and it was ordered to be sold. The time o sale was fixed for yesterday noon in front of the post-office on Main street, Chappaqua. The post-office consists of a little shed jutting out on the end of a piazza which runs along the front of a country feed store. It is set with small glass panes bearing the numbers of the letter-boxes, so that a (erson driving past can see if he has etters without alighting. At noon about twenty of the villagers, farmers and storekeepers who chanced to be in the neighborhood gathered on ;he stoop and retailed old stories about Mr. Greeley. A few hundred yards down the road could be seen the gate of the Greeley farm, and immediately in front of the post-office was the swamp on which Mr. Greeley expended so much money in his effort to convert it into good ground. Presently the auc tioneer, John A. Haight, appeared. He owns a pickle factor)' in the town, and is an old resident. He is a small man, with a florid complexion and stiff gray mous tache and hair. No one came up on the trains from the city except report ers. Soon after twelve o'clock Miss Greeley drove up alone in a top baggy, with a spirited bay horse. Miss Gree ley was dressed in" deep mourning for her sister. Her brown hair was brushed town plainly over her forehead, maA the healthful color in her cheeks showed how well her stay for several weeks past had agreed with her. At her feet was a large bunch of brightly colored leaves. She reined up the horse oppo site to the auctioneer, and spoke to her .lawyer, Mr. Porter. Auctioneer Haight stood on the high est of the threo steps of the stoop and said the sale would begin. A dozen urchins deserted their play and stood near his feet. Mr. Haight read the long legal description of the property, which said that the farm consisted of about seventy-seven acres, orchard, meadow and woodland. "What am I offered for the prop erty? Miss Greeley leaned out of the side of the buggy toward the auctioneer, and said in a clear, musical voice: "Ten thousand dollars." "Thank vou," said Mr. Haight. "That settles it." said halfa dozsn voices: "no one will bid against her." No one did bid. The auctioneer pleaded for $500 advance, $200, 9100. $50 and $25, but no one made a sign. He dilated on the value of the farm, said it was going dirt cheap, and called on the bystanders by name to bid higher, but there was no response. Then he took a short recess, and again offered the property. "I will take $10 advanoe," he said, who will bid $10,100. Wont you, Dr. ?" The Doctor addressed examined his pockets in a spirit of humor and de clined to bid. "Ten thousand dollars once; fair warning. Ten thousand dollars twice. Ten thousand dollars third and last time. Gone. Sold to Gabrielle M. Greeley for $10,000." Miss Greeley smiled pleasantly, and said she was glad, as she did not want the old farm to go out of the family. She had no plans regarding it just at present, but would put it in repair and probably move there next year. There are two houses on the farm, one near the gate and the other on the hill. The latter is unoccupied. -A" Y. Sun. The Prodigal. Yesterday forenoon a way-worn look ing man, having a shirt or two tied up in a ragged handkerchief, made his way up rort street east. Some folks could have seen -from his general air that while he knew exactly where he was going, he couldn't tell within forty rods of what his reception would be. He walked line a man who doubted, and he looked around him like one who felt anxious. He finally turned in and mounted the steps of a modest house, and his knock at the door was finally answered. The door was pulled open about an inch, and a shrill naica ex claimed: "Go away from here." "I'll never do it!" answered the man. The door was closed with a bang, but he stood right there and kept his eyes on the knob. After three or four min utes it was opened again and a voice cried out: "Go away or I'll call the police!" "I'll never go away from my darling!" "Who's your darling? "You are!" The door banged again. The man was prepared for it, and he maintained his place for full five minutes without becoming discouraged. At last it opened and a voice piped out: "You have been gone two months!" "Exactly, mv darling." "And you didn't send me a single cent!" "How could I when I never struck a job? Darling, I've returned to thee." "Go away I've got a divorce!" "Oh, but I know better! Darling, bid your long-absent husband welcome home." "Never!" and bang went the door. This time he coolly sat down and be gan to whistle. She went to an upper window and looked down upon nlm, and finally returned to the door and carefully opened it and said: "You deserted me for two whole months, and I had to take in boarders! Go away! I've no further use for ycu!" "Katie, do you mean it?" "Y-yes." "Then it only remains for me to die. I'll hang myself with that piece of rope to this tree. Katie, darling, good-bye!' She banged the door and he proceeded to affix a piece of clothes line to a limb and make ready the fatal noose. He had everything nicely arranged when she suddenly rushed out with: "And it's more trouble you'd make for your poor, weak wife, is it?" and she fell upon him and flung him over a bush and jammed him into a flower bed and shoved him into the house with the remark: "The prodigal has returned,, hot all the fatted calf he gets will be laid pn with a club." Detroit Free Prtss. Bag Weed. Rag-weed is one of tho most abund ant weeds. It springs up in every stubble field and fallow and covers acres of meadows and roadsides. It is a very bad weed. When it gets into; the hay or is eaten by the cattle it makes the milk bitter and spoils the butter. Moreover, it is now said to cause hay fever by its dusty acrid pollen. This, however, does not so much concern farmers because they, have not time to have hay fever, at least of this kind, and cannot stop even, to sneeze in this busy season. But this weed is no doubt pernicious to cattle and causes disease and death more frequently than is supposed. It is strongly aromatic and very indigestible and astringent. When eaten largely it has the effect of packing the stomach with dry, undigested matter, and of poisoning the blood. The disease thus produced is commonly called dry mur rain and is a fatal disorder. It is quite prevalent just now, and always in those places where good herbage is scarce and this and other coarse weeds are abundant, and at the same time water is bad or fails altogether, and cattle suffer from thirst, which is made intense by this dry, woody acrid weed. The remedy is simple to speak of, but unfortunately difficult to put in prac tice. It is to have no rag-weed; or, indeed, any others in the fields. But while this is impossible to carry into effect at once, it is by no means impossible to begin to do it. And no farmer snould need to be instructed how this should be done. It is an annual weed, and if mowed down or plowed under before it seeds there is an end of it so far. If this course is pursued in time there will be an end of it alto gether. It is curious that so disagree able a weed should be called ambrosia, which means "food for the gods," or it may reflect somewhat upon the "gods," whose sometimes disagreeable char acters might be accounted for if they had nothing better than rag-weed t Seed upon. & Y. Tribune. RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. A workingman's Sunday Rest Asso ciation is one of the religious institutions of St. Louis. Rev. Dr. J. H. M. Knox, of Bristol, has been elected President of Lafayette College, at Enstou, Pa. All the schools of Louisiana have been closed till next April. The cause is said to be want of money. N. O. Picayune. Rev. Dr. Parker Morgan, of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, in New York, with $6,000 sa"rary, declines a $10,000 call to Chicago. N. Y. Times. The American Bible Society is mak ing arrangements for issuing 2,000.000 copies next year, and with even such an enormous distribution the supply will fall far short of the demand. N. Y. Ex aminer. Dartmouth College is to receive $10,000 from the estate of the late Judge Jason Downer, of Milwaukee, Wis., under the provisions of his will. Judge Downer was graduated from that institution in the class of '83. Chicago Inter Ocean. D. L. Moody and his trustees, with some invited guests, dedicated the fine brick and s'one buildings connected with his Mount Herman Boys' School, in the town of Gill, Mass., before he departed for Europe. The buildings cost $29,000, and they command one of the finest views in the Connecticut Riv er Valley. Boston Journal. The brutality of the Canuck stu dents toward some ladies who under took to study at Kingston Medical Col lege last yea'r has resulted in the estab lishment of two female medical colleges in Canada, one in Kingston and ono in Toronto, botli in active operation, the latter having opened with a large num ber of students, with Dr. Barrett, of the Toronto school of medicine, for Presi dent. Toronto Mail. The School Journal advocates tho general establishment of reference libra ries in the schools. "The State Super intendent should select a list of books, and let each district buy from this list with the money appropriated bv the State. In New York State the $55.000 annually wasted on the district libraries should be spent on reference libraries. The books should be kept at the school house and be under the care of the teacher; they should be used at the school, and not loaned out." Between September 1, 1882, and September 1, 1883, two agents of the New York Bible Society have distributed, among the immigrants arriving at Cas tle Garden, 53,877 Bibles and Testa ments, printed in German, Hungarian or Scandinavian. No Bible or Testa ment is given to an immigrant unless he or she is able to read the book in the language in which a copy is desired. During the same period marine agents have visited 3,484 vessels and distributed 39,775 volumes of the Scriptures. N. Y. Tribune. Imported Cloth Salts. Imported cloth dresses are far more richly trimmed, than those made heru and are less severe in style. The French tailor directs his efforts toward getting rid of the voluminous looped drapery which is both ineffective and weighty in cloth, yet at the same time he pro duces a bouffant tournure. He also employs velvet for combinations, and uses embossed plush, passementerie braiding, fouragercs, and fur borders for trimming, where the New York tail or depends'entirely upon stitching and cord or braided edges for a simple and neat finish. Moss green cloths with ot ter fur borders, blue-gray cloth with velvet revers and applique flowers, and blue cloths braided with blue sontache that has some red or some gilt braid mingled with it, are among the newest importations. When a pelisse is used as the over-dress for a cloth suit, it is long enough to nearly conceal the low er skirt, which is made lighter by being of foundation silk, with only a plaiting of cloth set on in a narrow row all around the foot, with deeper plaiting for showing at any place on the side or back where the pelisse is shortened or left open. The favorite style for these pelisses has the waist opening in a curve from the throat to the left side on the hips, leaving a point or a smooth space in the middle of the corsage front, and forming below this a draped apron which may be pointed, rounded or square-cornered. A surplice revers of velvet, or a row of braiding, or a border of fur, is the suitable trimming lor such a garment. When fur Dorders are used on cloth pelisses, they are placed upon one or both sides of the middle of the back, which is left open, but are not. across the foot in the back; if there is an apron front, the fur is across the foot, but if the garment is open and straight be low the waist, the fur extends from tho waist down to the foot, but does not border on the lower edge. There are large diamond-shaped passementerie ornaments that are placed beside a 'border of fur or of braiding, and these promise to take the place of the plaques or disks of cord that were used last j'ear. Another fancy is that of cutting out the large flowers, leaves or fruits that form the designs of embossed Jlusb, and placing one of these near the oot of each plait on the cloth skirt, or in a row down each sidq. also on tho sleeves, and along the middle of the front of a vest or of a plaited corsage. One of the handsomest Parisian suits of blue-gray cloth has a large plush rose and leaves in shades of gray applied on each plait of the skirt and over-skirt. This unique dress has a plaited skirt formed of four broad plaits meeting in front, and wider box plaits oehind ; the upper skirt is formed entirely of straight side plaits, and is rather short behind, but falls open in front in two points, din cloding the plaits of the skirt beneath, and there are velvet revers down the open fronts. The postilion basque has the front double-breasted, with pointed velvet revers tapering to the waist, and a row of the plush roses between the revers. Smalt flat blue steel buttons are set along the revers, but the corsage is fastened under the double-breasted part by hooks and eyes. As we have said before, buttons are not conspicuous on the new dresses, and most of them return to the old-fashioned hooks and eye, or ehe they have lacing, or loops of velvet, or straps, or other capricious mode of fastening. Still another new fancy for cloth dresses is that of making the front of the garment in princesse shape, with the upper part outlining a vest, and this vest is usually of a con trasting color, either red, white, or golden brown, while there are also what are called Watteau vests, made of the cloth of the front breadth extended upward from the skirt to the neck, and drooping softly below the waist, or else fastened at the throat and waist-line by clasps of silver, steel, or pearl, or else .by velvet straps and buckles. Harper's Bazar. A match factory at Utica turns out 7,000.000 matches a day. Utica (M T".) llemld. Rochester, N. Y., has an aggregate capital of $2,500,000 invested in the clothing trade. About a hundred thousand Cana dians are engaged in the lumber busi ness. The total product of lumber in Canada in 1881 was $33,541,752. More than $5,000,000 in hard cash has been expended in various attempts to find gold in paying quantities ia Georgia. The entire mine property of the State is assessed at S127.000. Chi cago Herald. One of the new private residences on Fifth avenue. New York, has a music hall and billiard-room, a tennis-' court on the top floor, an elevator, steam laundry and gymnasium. The frescoing was done by foreign artists, and the furniture was made iu Paris at a cost of $110.000. -V. Y. Sun. England has 7,917.000 square miles. of colonios and possessions beyond tho seas, in extent twice as large as all Europe, with 210,000.000 inhabitants, of which 200,000,000 are in. India, 5,000,000 in Canada, 8.000,000 in Aus tralia and 1,000,000 at the Cape. The Chicago Tribune, it is said, re ceives for a column of advertisements $26,000 a year. The New York Herald receives for its lowest priced column $39,723 and for its highest $348,100. The New York Tribune, for the lowest, $29,754, anil for its highest, $85,618; and these papers, it is stated, are never at a loss for advertisements to fill their columns. Charles Goodnight has the largoH cattle ranch in the world at the headof the Red River, Texas. He began buy ing land four years ago, getttusr 270,000 acres at 35 cents au acre. The price has risen to $2 an acre. He is still buy ing. He controls 700,000 acres. To in close his land 250 miles of fence are re quired. He has 40,000 cattle. Chicago Inter Ocean. Ou Manhattan Island 100.000 children are earning a 1 ving. Out of the 100,000 at least 50,000 have reason to expect to get ou in life, and in due season to become respected and respon sible members of society. The young est child employed as a bread winner is four years old, and her services are valued at $1 a week, which, it is to be feared, does her verv little actual good. A large portion of tne children included in this estimate are cash and errand boys and girls, nurse girls, and, of course, factory hands. Oddly enough, there are hardly any crossing sweepers in New York while in London their name is legion. .V. Y. Times. An importer and exporter of furs gives this information: "The house cat is one of the most valuable of fur-bearing animals, and when they mysterious ly disappear from the back fence thev often find their way to the furrier, ft is an actual fact that in 1882 over 1,200,000 house cats were used by the fur trade. Black, white, maltese and tortoise-shell skins are most in demand, and are made into linings. As for skunks. 350,000 were used in this coun try last season, valued from fifty cents to $1.20. They come from Ohio and New York principally, and, as in pur suit of the tiger and lion, the bravest men are required." Detroit Post. WIT AND WISDOM. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you try to ap pear. Indianapolis Journal. "Is shaving a necessity?" is the question that was argued by a Western debating society. It is, to barbers, or they would starve. Philadelphia IJulle tin. There'are two things whi eh ought never to excite a manj anger First, those which he can help, and second, those which he eannot help. N. Y. Herald. "Come away from that straw-stack, chile," called a negro womau to her son. "Fust thing yer k;iow yer'll hab do hay fever. Doa'n yer put none ob dat straw in yer raouf." Atlanta Con stitution. Little Aggie's sister had invited her best j'oung man to tea. There was a lull in the conversation, which was broken by the inquisitive Aggie: "Papa, is dose tedders ober Mr. wbbinson's motif?" Chicarjo Times. It was the intelligent foreman of an esteemed exchange who placed under the heading "Railway Notes'' the fash ion item: "The court train will this sea son replace the princesse and round trains." Lowell Citizen. A Clark County liar has been awarded the surcingle. He tells of a winter so severe that the springs in men's watches were all fio.en. We know a man who has such a cold-looking eye that it once froze a cataract that appeared on his eyeball. Whitehall (xV. Y.) Times. It is stated that a Texas hen sat for three days on a nest full of haiLtouos before she discovered that they were not eT23. lhe funniest part of the story is that she didn't hatch out au ice house or two. But perhaps the Texas liar was not in town Herald. trnni? health. Norris- n ' A young lady resented herself to ibrarian of our the other day the gentlemauly public library and inquired if "An Idle Clergyman"' was in. Somehow things had got mixed. It was finally evolved that the book she desired was "A Reverend Idol." Veri ly, what's in a name. Lowell Citizen. "Ah, Victorine, my poor girl, how you have changed.'" "It is becauso I have just come from the dentist's, madame; he pulled out two of my teeth." "Two?" "Yes, madame; a good one and then a bad one: he made a mistake the first time." "How horri ble!" "But it doesn't matter. He was very reasonable; he only made me pay for one." Paris Paper. "Secretary Folger has called for $15,000,000."" Secretary Folger, we believe, spent a few weeks at one of the watering-places this summer, and find ing he hadn't enough money to pay his hotel bill, promised to send his check for the amount as soon as he reached home. He must have been accompanied by his wife and servant, and occupied two rooms at the hotel. Norristown Herald. He was a masher holding up the corner, and as a very pretty girl came along he spotted her", and made a break to mash her. "Ah," he said, with a greasy smile, tipping his hat, "I beg your pardon, but are you not Miss ? ' But before he "could continue she interrupted with: "Not mis-taken in thinking you are a fool? No, I I don't think" I am," and she sailed past, while he fell up against a lamp post and gasped as the crowd stand ing around gave him the laugh till it made him sick in fourteen languages. Chicago Tribune.